Chapter 16 - Financial Retribution
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Over the next forty-eight hours, Evelyn executed a ruthless legal strike that systematically dismantled everything Derek had ever built.
Using the evidence of financial fraud uncovered during the house raid, Evelyn filed an emergency petition in probate court. The judge issued an immediate, absolute freeze on all of Derek’s personal bank accounts, stock portfolios, and real estate holdings.
Furthermore, Evelyn filed for an immediate fault-based divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty, domestic abuse, and felony fraud. Under state law, because Derek was facing felony charges for attempting to cause severe physical harm to his spouse, he was legally barred from claiming a single penny of marital assets or spousal support.
By Friday afternoon, Derek’s corporate employer, Global Tech Solutions, issued a public press release terminating his executive employment effective immediately for gross ethical violations and criminal conduct.
His company car was repossessed from the police impound lot, his corporate credit cards were canceled, and his executive pension was placed in a court-ordered escrow account to satisfy the upcoming civil damages lawsuit I had filed against him.
In less than four days, the man who had stood over me on the kitchen floor, mocking my helplessness and threatening my livelihood, had lost his job, his money, his reputation, and his freedom.
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Sitting up in my hospital bed, I signed the final divorce petition with a sleek gold pen.
“He’s broke, Abbey,” Evelyn reported, taking the signed papers. “His family had to mortgage their own home just to pay for his initial bail hearing—which the judge denied anyway.”
